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From Hearthstone to MARVEL SNAP with Second Dinner's Ben Brode

The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

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The Origins of Blizzard

Ben Brode: I started at Blizzard 2003. The company was about 300 something people. And the creative development team, what's the purpose of the creative? He says they need someone to take screenshots for marketing and then it grew beyond that. Now you had a board game because this is the Ben Brode lineage is like is like collectible card games,. Like that you've come through here. But had you in that whole trading card collection that your father had out of those thousand games or were you mainlining magic since the night or something? Certainly. So we played sealed decks against each other as an family. We played tons of tons of magic together. For 27 years or something.

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